Senior Vice President of Technology, NCG-KCDO

Reporting to : CEO, NCG-KCDO

Job / Role Description :

Provide technology leadership to NCG and NCG centers, engage with NCG centers to shape digital health strategy, and provide support across the digital transformation journey..

• Lead key digital health initiatives : Drive end-to-end design, development and roll-out of key digital health initiatives.
• Digital Solution Landscape: Assess existing and new oncology solutions and stay abreast of emerging technology trends in the industry.
• Digital Solution Selection: Conduct digital health solution pilots and identify/empanel solutions for NCG centers, e.g., KCDO-EMR initiative , telemedicine, and patient engagement.
• Digital Standards: Define common standards (interoperability, privacy, security, etc.) and data/analytic models in alignment with policy guidance/regulatory requirements.
• NCG Centre Engagement: Engage closely with key technology companies and technology leadership of NCG centres to help drive digital adoption.
• NCG Technology Operations: Drive NCG internal technology initiatives and operations e.g., enterprise data warehousing, analytics, AI/ML.

Key Focus Areas :

• EMR Initiative: NCG-KCDO has empanelled 6 national scale HMIS/EMR vendors and customized their product to meet the unique needs for oncology that has been well received among the NCG community with over 20 NCG hospitals in the implementation process. The team is working on interoperability to enable electronic transfer of patient s health recordsfrom one hospital/doctor to another to ensure continuity of care.
• Teleconsultation Initiative: NCG-KCDO is launching two pilots at TMH that will facilitate teleconsultation calls with cancer patients using an oncology specific telemedicine platform with an assisted model where a junior doctor will provide a case summary to the oncologist to improve the efficiency of such calls and design the operating model for a national scale teleconsultation solution across the NCG network.
• AI/ML Initiative: NCG-KCDO is working on developing a comprehensive framework to advance oncology innovation through AI-ML solutions that will help promote the use of proven AI-ML solutions across NCG hospitals, accelerate the development of new AI-ML solutions by health tech companies, and transform cancer care by leveraging AI-ML technologies.
• Web/Mobile Apps: NCG-KCDO is working on developing (a) the NCG Patient App, a comprehensive resource for patients and the general public to learn about cancer prevention, detection, and care across every stage of the cancer journey and (b) the NCG Connect App, a comprehensive resource for NCG centres and doctors to collaborate and exchange information across a broad range of topics.
• Clinical Decision Support: NCG-KCDO is supporting the development of clinical decision making tools that can help clinicians with better information at the point of care in making clinical decisions such as Synoptic Reporting for Pathology, NCG Clinical Guidelines automation for driving standardization in care and Virtual Tumor Board Library for training and treatment planning.

Requirements:

Industry Experience and Qualifications

• Senior professional with 15+ years of progressive growth and experience in technology, datamanagement, and digital transformation.
• Healthcare industry experience in care delivery organizations (hospitals/clinics/remote care) or technology companies servicing such organizations or public health organizations.
• A solid understanding of healthcare-specific technologies and data standards is highly preferred.
• A bachelors degree is required; an MBA or equivalent degree is preferred.

Skills and Attributes:

• Proven track record in leading teams and organizations through digital transformations at scale.
• Demonstrated experience building and growing trust-based relationships with senior professionals (clinical and technical) at public and/or private hospitals.
• Strong desire to contribute to social impact at scale with a long-term view. High degree of resilience and intrinsic motivation to drive things forward, especially in the face of challenges.
• Ability to be hands-on and work as an individual contributor or with small teams as needed.Demonstrated capacity for out-of-the-box thinking.
• Comfortable working in a government organization as part of a collaborative network and effectively navigating the operational processes to deliver results.
• Deep understanding of technology, including mobile, cloud, AI/ML/deep tech, open source, service-oriented architecture, and micro services.
• Solid understanding of data structures and standards, including data management, data privacy and security, data interoperability, and data analytics.
• Excellent communication skills (spoken and written), strong program management experience, and business orientation with the ability to drive data-driven decision-making.

Employment Details:

• Position: Full-time project based position employed by Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) with a renewable tenure of 2 years
• Location: Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai (No work from home provision)
• Timings: Monday to Friday (8.25 hrs.) and any one Saturday in a month (5 hrs.)
• Leaves and Holidays: 15 days leave allowance every 6 months; 15-17 national holidays (includes weekend holidays where applicable).
• Benefits: Health insurance or provident fund is not included